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This week we have been reading the story of ‘The three Billy Goat’s Gruff’. The children have been acting out the story using masks, making bridges in the junk modelling and the construction and we have been measuring out how much water was needed to fill the pond for the troll. We also read an alternative version of the story called ‘The three Billy Goat’s Fluff’. We found out about real goats then wrote what we had found out. Please look in the children’s learning journeys to see our fantastic writing. On Monday it was the Chinese New Year, we read a book to find out how people celebrate, made lanterns, painted and drew pictures of dragons and made prawn toast! Please come and see our Chinese New Year display. Thank you to all children and families who have let our class borrow artefacts and resources to enhance the topic. Y6 have been thinking what life must have been like for Captain Scott during his ill-fated trek to the South Pole this week, as part of our Creative Curriculum. We combined this with some cold weather poses to use as part of our forthcoming art exhibition (class portraits linked to our topic on Extreme Environments. We surmised what Captain Scott might have looked like what we could look like during a wintry storm (imagine the girl’s hair being blown in a snowstorm)! There were quite a few model poses struck thanks to a strategically placed scarf and the aid of a hairdryer! More to follow… This week in maths Year 1 have been calculating. They have been working out subtraction calculations. The calculations have been amounts of money and they have chosen their own methods for working them out. Some of Year 1 have used number lines to count on. Some have used real pennies and some have used their fingers to count on.
MA 2 L1 and L2 Y5 worked so hard on their badge-making enterprise last term that they raised enough money to adopt their very own snow leopard! They have now received an adoption certificate thanking them for supporting the snow leopards of the sacred Himalayas, which are in serious danger of becoming extinct. They will receive regular photographs and updates about the species, and they also have their very own snow leopard, which they have named Bob, living in their classroom!
Some of the children in Y5 have been using real sources to help them find out about Victorian life. They have used a family bible dating from 1881 to find out about the members of a real Victorian family, the Gibsons. A quilt made in 1885 helped them to find out about the life of the Gibsons’ little daughter Jenny. It showed the games and pastimes she enjoyed, favourite family members and significant developments such as the first postage stamps and the penny-farthing bicycle. The children also managed to make links between the family bible and the quilt. This is what they said: “Jenny Gibson’s quilt is made up of small embroidered squares. We think it was done by Jenny and her mum. On the quilt is a picture of someone called Aunt Charlotte. We think that Aunt Charlotte gave the bible to Jenny’s dad, because the inscription in the front of it says To J H Gibson with the best wishes of his sister, C E Gibson. We think C stands for Charlotte. We think Jenny must have loved her Aunt Charlotte and that is why there is a picture of her on the quilt”. The children are working really hard on their Victorian theme, and are especially excited about their forthcoming visit to the Bronte Parsonage Museum when they hope to find even more answers to their questions! Look what Y2 found amongst some Greek ruins! We think they must be portraits of Greek Goddesses…Can you guess who they are?
“Worsbrough Bank End Primary School – A GOOD School with OUTSTANDING features! “ We are delighted to share the final Ofsted report with you. I think you will see that the school is now performing better than it has in the last five years. We are incredibly proud of this because we do work very hard to make Bank End a special place where learning and improvements in learning drive everything. 91% of you are happy with what we do and we want to promise you that we will continue to try to get better until we have an outstanding provision for all your children. We know through the parent questionnaires that 9% of our families are unhappy with the provision that we provide. If you feel unhappy with anything that we are doing or providing it is important that you make an appointment to speak to a member of the Senior Leadership Team a.s.a.p. If we don’t know how you feel, we can’t do anything about it and we want so much for you to be happy with the provision. Please help us to help you so that the children’s learning can come first. ‘Bank End Primary-where working together works’ INSET Day READING CHALLENGE Milk Today, Y2 made their own Greek salads. We are learning about writing instructions, so as they created their masterpieces they wrote down each step that they came across on their fresh and healthy journey! They were using time connectives (next, then, after), imperative verbs (cut, slice, chop), adverbs (finely, carefully), connectives (and, because, so) and some people even used adjectives (watery, juicy, sweet) to make their instructions interesting to read! By lunchtime they had eaten so much salad that they almost didn’t want their own lunches! ALMOST being the imperative word there!
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I am very sorry to have to send out this letter but feel that there are far too many children, particularly in upper KS2, wearing unsuitable footwear for school. We are not being pedantic about this issue, when your children wear fashion items for school their behaviour and readiness for learning is hugely affected in a negative manner. We know this through years of experience and good educational research carried out across the country. When we have spoken to individuals we have had poor excuses made to us like ‘other children wear them’, or ‘they don’t want to wear black shoes’. This really is not helpful or good enough. If your children do not wear school uniform, they are breaking the rules agreed in school and this will not be permitted. Please can you make sure that your child(ren) come to school in the agreed school uniform, listed below, every day so that we can concentrate on the important job of preparing them for their futures. Please accept my apologies if you always work hard to follow our dress code. Thank you for your fantastic support in this matter. Thank you for your continued support! Nichola Thorpe
This week Year 3 as part of our Volcano topic have been writing an advert to persuade people to go on holiday to Sicily and visit Mount Etna. They have been learning about ‘Palindromes’ in mathematics and developing calculation skills with numberlines and partitioning. During our creative time we have begun to look at shading and shape using pencils and chalks, this will develop their enquiry skills in art. They have been using geographical and historical enquiry skills to research different Volcanoes around the world. The ICT challenge has been focussing on internet research skills. As you can see the children have been very busy! In our role play museum we have been carrying out research for our exhibition of Ancient Egyptian gods. As artists and designers we have been making artefacts such as square based clay pyramids and Ancient Egyptian jewellery. This week y2 have been discussing ‘how to become a Greek God!’ We watched Hercules and saw how he tried to impress his immortal father (Zeus) by becoming a hero and also talked about how Perseus was sent on a scary mission to chop off Medusa’s head so that he could become an immortal God also. We have been writing instructions so that other people could try to become Greek gods or goddesses. To help us with our ideas we acted out some scenes from Hercules and captured them with digital photography. Here are some examples…see if you can guess what we are doing! |
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